Locally Optimal
Chris LakinBounties for people influencing frontier AI
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What if "inner work" optimized for results?
What if clients and practitioners doing “inner work” optimized for long-term results — rather than entertainment, community, obligation, and other goals? For example, curing burnout, durably dropping all coping behaviors, entering long-term...
Most "inner work" looks like entertainment.
Imagine you’re looking for a personal trainer.
You open one trainer’s webpage and read their testimonials: “I had an experience tied for the most intense experiences of my life”; “They do it all with fun, care, and a sense of humour.” You...
everyone I've watched drop their addictions did not try
doomscrolling, vaping, porn, overworking, dating — they were surprised when their addictions stopped happening.
contrast this with “whack-a-mole”—
“four moles whacked, only one left…”
“one mole whacked, only one left…”
“one mole whacked...
What it’s like to become an intuitive person: Emergent Misalignment coauthor
Daniel, coauthor of the Emergent Misalignment paper (Nature), gained ~5h/day after our bounty last summer.
I followed up recently:
How did you used to spend your time?
On an average day I might do around 6–8 hours of work and then 5–6...
What went wrong when I matchmade my friends
74 of my friends were single and looking. So what if I matchmade them?
The first step was to keep a list of all of my single-and-looking friends. So I asked friends if they wanted to be matchmade:
And added a new tag to my friend database...
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i sure hope burnout and conflict-avoidance at AI labs don't cause misaligned AI
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